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Nisan 9, 5689
April 19, 1929
A New Era in Philanthropy.
The step taken by the seventeen Jewish leaders of
Boston to wipe out the existing deficit of $500,000
hanging over the Beth Israel Hospital and the Feder-
ch
i
ated Jewish Charities is indeed a new era in philan-
thropy. By subscribing $300,000 towards the existing
deficits, this group has established an important prece-
dent. It is an acknowledgement on the part of the
recognized leaders that the communal obligations do
not begin and end with "drives," but that their duties
continue throughout the year toward existing institu-
tions which must be permitted to function without de-
ficits.
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The falling short in revenues by important institu-
tions is not always wrong, and is certainly not crimi-
nal. There are times when the required quotas are
not supplied, and there are other times when the de-
mands during a fiscal year by far exceed all advance
expectations. In such instances it is certainly the re-
sponsibility of the community to honor the debts in-
curred. Under all and any circumstances, however, it
is important that institutions be made free to function
for the purposes they were organized and that they
should not be handicapped and hampered by defici-
iencies.
Several months ago a group of public spirited Pitts-
burgh leaders met for a purpose similar to that in
which Boston now takes the lead. The action of Bos-
ton's leaders and the steps that are evidently soon to
be taken in Pittsburgh to wipe out the deficits of the
Jewish institutions in that city are a welcome sign that
a new and very happy era is being ushered in by men
who not only feel and know their responsibilities to the
Jewish community, but who are ready to live up to
their obligations.
Symptoms of Prejudice.
In two different parts of the country two symptoms
of prejudice were reported last week.
In Connecticut Orthodox Jews are compelled to con-
duct a campaign against a proposed anti-Schechita
bill. The Connecticut Humane Society is sponsoring a
bill which provides that persons engaged in slaughter-
ing of cattle for food "without stunning such animals
before or immediately after the slaughtering stroke
shall be administered, shall be fined not more than
$200 or imprisoned not more than six months or both."
In Georgia, the State Supreme Court reversed a de-
cision of the Superior Court of Bryan County which
permitted the Bryan County Jury Commissioners to
exclude Jews from jury panels. The Jury Commis-
sioners were charged by affected complainants with
"hatred, malice and religious prejudice," and were
upheld in this charge by the Supreme Court.
These are sad signs of prejudice, anti the fact that
they are combatted before they show their ugly heads
too visibly is to be commended.
Do They Really Love the Jews?
Among the feature articles received by the editor
this week is one from the United Jewish Campaign,
entitled: "Like the Jews? Why Shouldn't We?" It
describes the relations between Jewish and Christian
neighbors in the Ukraine and the conclusion that the
writer comes to is that the Christians love their Jew-
ish neighbors. But do they?
With the same mail that brought the U. J. C. story
came a number of Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports
from Russia revealing a sad state of affairs for the
Jews in Soviet Russia. Here are some samples:
At Odessa two workers are being tried for sabotag-
ing a factory because the manager was a Jew.
Tchervone, superintendent of a hospital in Minsk.
was found guilty of anti-Jewish practices and sentenced
to two years' imprisonment.
Seven Jewish houses of study were confiscated and
converted into labor clubs in Vitebsk.
The Minsk Communist daily Oktiabr reports that
the rabbi of Beresina is being expelled from the town
on charges of counter-revolution.
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The Moscow Trud states that anti-Semitism has
manifested itself in many factories. The paper points
especially to the factory Krasny Tekstilschik where
anti-Semitism is rampant. The Central Labor Insti-
tute has also evidenced the presence of anti-Semitism
and the paper demands an investigation.
In Sembin, in the government of Minsk, a group of
religious Jews invaded a meeting of Communists where
a discussion was going on about a resolution to confis-
cate the synagogue. The religious Jews are quoted as
having shouted: "Blood will flow, but the synagogue
will not be surrendered."
In view of these reports the question is naturally
raised: "Do the Russians really love the Jews?" An.1
if what is transpiring is evidence of love, we may be
permittea tne parapilicisiwg
sion: "Love, love, what crimes are being committed in
thy name!"
RAQX-9.Q, •
HROXICHE
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Honoring Emile Berliner.
Emile Berliner, inventor, of Washington, D. C., is
without a doubt one of the most interesting Jewish per-
sonalities in this country. One of the world's outstand-
ing discoverers of most important inventions in the
modern scientific and mechanical world, he has, at the
same time, placed himself in the front ranks of the
workers for Jewish causes. He has devoted himself
to efforts for Jewish education and to Zionism and
has given his heart to his people. Therefore his people
greets him on the occasion of his receiving from the
Franklin Institute of Philadelphia of the Franklin
Medal, the highest honor awarded by that body.
For inventing the Gramophone, or Victor Talking
Machine, in 1887, Mr. Berliner was previously award-
ed by the Franklin Institute with the John Scott Medal
and the Elliot Gresson Gold Medal. Ten years prev-
ious to that, in 1887, he discovered that a loose con-
tact will act as a telephone receiver and was first to
use an induction coil in connection with transmitters,
and this helped usher in the radio age. Ile is the in-
ventor andperfector of the present method of dupli-
cating disc records. Among his numerous other
achievements and contributions is his invention of the
accoustic tile for insuring good accoustics in public
halls.
Mr. Berliner has translated his devotion to the Zion-
ist cause in the form of large contributions to the funds
for the Hebrew University, the Jewish National Fund
andthe Keren Hayesod. He has also translated his
Zionism with a devotion to Jewish causes outside of Pal-
estine, particularly devoting himself to movements for
the return of the Jew to the soil. The National Farm
School was especially favored by him for that reason.
But a general reason for this interest is the statement
he once made: "I am a Jew and I want the world to
know that I am a Jew."
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A well-known Jewess residing in New England writes
me concerning my comment on the Goodwill Meeting held
recently in Providence, H. I. She wonders if there is not
an element of risk in this Goodwill movement making for
the weakening of Jewish solidarity. The Jew mellowing
under the sunshine of Christian goodwill is likely to
become expansively generous in his attitude toward
Christianity and suggest that perhaps we could dispense
with some of our "stiff ne•kedvdness" and traditional
ceremonialism. It may be that some of our Christian
friends might mistake the extreme friendly advances of
the Jew in his effort to be as affable and congenial as
possible, and imagine that he is willing to take a more
"Christian" attitude toward Christianity. What do you
think about it? Do you believe that the Jew is likely
to become more assimilable material because of his "get-
togethering" with his Christian neighbors in a religious
way?
Always glad to receive information that may be of
interest to my readers.
Now conies B. G. Morris, of Detroit, who writes that
"in one of your Random Thoughts you referred to a Jew-
ish Grand Master of Masons of Illinois, as the only one
which canto to your notice." So he informs me that
Missouri had a Jewish Grand Master in the person of
Jacob Lampert, formerly of Detroit, and that his cousin.
Moses Morris, was Jewish Grand Master of Masons of
Montana. This is news indeed. It indicates to what
extent the Jews have been honored in Masonry.
Adolph Ochs, publisher of the New York Times, is
always a good "news item." The first time I ever saw
Adolph Ochs was in the Temple of his late father-in-law,
Isaac M. Wise, in Cincinnati. I don't like to disclose my
age but I happened to be there on the occasion of Isaac
M. Wise's eightieth birthday. I recall the services quite
well. And I remember Mr. Ochs, who was a fine looking
man of middle age, sitting right along side of me. At
that time he was not such a figure in the newspaper
world. lie and his brother, George, were running the
Chattanooga Times, and if I am not mistaken, George
used to get quite a great deal of notice in the Jewish
papers because he had been elected mayor of Chatta-
nooga. In fact, he was better advertised in the earlier
(lays that his now much more famous brother.
In a recent issue of Times I discovered these few
interesting items concerning Mr. Ochs:
For some time Ittamar Ben Avi, Palestine journal-
ist, son of the late Eliezar Ben Yehuda, the pioneer in
the movement for the revival of Hebrew as the spoken
tongue of the Jewish people, has been advocating the
Latinization of the Hebrew script. Mr. Ben Avi claims
that the present square (Assyrian) script employed in
writing Hebrew is not the traditional Hebrew script,
and that the Latin alphabet is a direct descendant of
the old Hebrew script even more than the Greek. "As
a matter of fact," Mr. Ben Avi tells us, "a careful study
of the four alphabets (old Hebrew, new Hebrew or the
square script, Greek and Latin) reveals conclusively
that Latin is much more closely related to old Hebrew
than to the square script."
Adolph Simon Ochs was a teacher's son who
had begun on his own as a newsboy and printer's
devil. Working on nearly every standard news-
paper he had bought the Chattanooga Times when
he was 20, paying for it $250 (borrowed) and as-
suming its debts of $1,500. For $75,000 and his
services he got half of the stock of the New York
Times. The present-day Times is his creation.
People mocked at his motto "All the news that's
fit to print." They scoffed at his plan to cover
fully phases of news that had never been to cov-
ered before. . . . At his refusal to accept the
trend toward sensationalism, muck-raking, fun-
nies and "Yellow" headlines, his contemporaries
and competitors snorted. Ile printed about 20,000
copies of his first issue. Half of them came back
unsold. The Sunday circulation of the Times last
week was 752,689. It is unquestionably the
greatest United States newspaper, with special
empsasis on the "news." Perhaps it is the world's
greatest.
Why should not the Jewish nation be proud of the
greatest invention of mankind of all ages—the science of
writing? It has a right to emphaziz with pride the owner-
ship of the mother script of all Western civilization. Has
not Professor Grunne of Germany proved conclusively
that it was Moses who first used it on Mount Sinai—the
Canaanitcs then taking it over from him?
This Palestinian journalist therefore favors that
Jews should follow the example of Mustapha Kemal in
ordering, last December, that all Turkish newspapers
appear in Latin type. And although Ben Avi's pro-
posal has not been taken very seriously anywhere, we
now hear a competitive echo for the change of the He-
brew script from Arabic quarters. The Jerusalem
Arab weekly, Al Mustakim, editorially makes "A Pro-
posal to Our Israelite Brethren," urging that if the
Assyrian (square) script is to be changed as advocated
that Jews adopt the Arabic alphabet. This course is
urged upon the Jews by the Arabs as preferable to
"imitating the westernization efforts of the Turks by
adopting the Latin alphabet."
It is of interest to note that the Arabic "proposal"
is argued on the ground that "the Arab characters are
similar in origin to the Hebrew and, besides, the adop-
tion by the Palestine Jews of the Arabic alphabet
would tend to create a better understanding between
the Jews and the Arab peoples." On the other hand,
Ben Avi builds a defense for his own proposal around
an historical background : "If Isaiah or Jesus were to
arise today and walk through the streets of Jerusalem,
now thriving anew, they would certainly be unable to
read a single sign or even a syllable of the Hebrew
daily papers. For the present day Hebrew alphabet is,
ill its final analysis, nothing but a script taken from a
foreign people. Ezra the Scribe, returning to his land
from captivity in Babylonia and finding most of his
remaining people ignorant of the original alphabet,
deemed it necessary to adopt the foreign script for his
writings."
Perhaps the best answer to Ben Avi is the indiffer-
ence with which his proposal is met in as well as out
of Palestine. Where interest is being shown it is only
aroused by curiosity, and the result is ridicule of the
proposal. The competitive offer made by the Arabic
Al Muskatim is a very natural one. in view of an effort
to replace a script used for so many centuries with
what is today generally accepted as a "foreign" script.
Granting that all the historical proofs presented by
Ben Avi are correct there is, after all, something to be
said for the sentiment that rules the Jewish ranks in
favor of the script now in use. The mere fact that
Ben Avi makes his proposal on the basis of a compari-
son of Hebrew with Esperanto is certain to stamp his
efforts for Latinization of Hebrew with failure. Be-
cause the prayers of a people are read in the "square"
script at present in use, and the traditions established
and accepted by two thousand years of usage are not
to be wiped out overnight, just as these traditions are
not to be replaced by the obsolete ones of twenty cen-
turies back. And if Isaiah or Jesus would. upon aris-
ing today, be unable to read a syllable of the Hebrew
at present used, it is equally as true that they would
not recognize anything else that would today strike
their eyes.
Ben Avi's proposal does not differ from that of the
Jerusalem Arabic paper. Both ignore sentiments
rooted in the hearts of the Jewish people in twenty
centuries. Both forget that tradition supersedes law,
if we are to grant that the present Hebrew script was
not the law two thousand years ago. Traditional
usage and the literature created in it have surely
stamped a mark of invincibility on the present script.
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I sometimes wonder when representative Christians
are so quick to mention the Jews who have corrupted
journalism they seem to forget that the New York Times
is controlled by a Jew.
I am going to ask the consideration of the readers of
this column if I reduce the number of subjects to be
commented upon in this instalment in order to present
to this wider audience a part of the stenographic report
of the first of a series of lectures given by Rev. John
Haynes Holmes, on his observations in Palestine, which
appeared in the Jewish Daily Bulletin. To my mind it is
of tremendous value in giving the man standing on neu-
tral ground the opinion of a non-Jew who is completely
without prejudice and who may be trusted to be uncom-
promisingly honest. It will come as a shock to many
Zionists in this country, I am sure. And it will also
serve to confirm the opinions of many non-Zionists as to
England's real motive in obtaining a mandate over Pal-
estine.
Said Dr. Holmes:
First, I am convinced that the English govern-
ment is pro-Arab and not pro-Jew. That was
denied every time I put the question straight and
direct. It was denied, I believe, honestly and sin-
cerely. The Englishmen are good sportsmen. The
Englishman wants to be fair, without prejudice to
himself, of course—the Englishman wants to be
fair. I believe, in Palestine, that he is trying to
play fair but interprets the game of fairness in-
evitably in favor of the Arabs. He regards the
Arabs as the native population. He believes that
the Arab is the man who is actually living on the
land. Ile believes, therefore, that the Arab must
be saved from exploitation by the Jew. There-
fore, how-ever fine and sure and sincere his mo-
tives, he is standing there, I am convinced, today
with a sheltering hand around the population
which he regards as helpless as that population
faces the invasion of the highly-trained western-
ized Jews coming in there to take over the land
and establish their own country.
Secondly, I am convinced that England in
l'alestine doesn't like the Jew and doesn't know
how to deal with him. The Englishman in Pales-
tine is an imperialist, raised in imperial admin-
istration with the far-flung colonies of the world.
Ile is used to dealing with the members of a native
population. But he doesn't know what on earth
to do with a man living in a colony who enters his
office and looks him straight in the eye and, in-
stead of asking him a favor, tells him what he has
got to do.
That is what the Jews are persisting in doing
in Palestine. Week after week they send their
committee's to the office of the high commissioner.
They enter that office as men who walk straight
and tall, without any favors to grant, speaking in
the name of justice; and they present careful re-
ports, many of which I read, specifying with the
utmost particularity that the English government
has got to do that and that and it has got to do
the other.
The English government, imperially speaking,
won't stand for that sort of thing. So the English
government doesn't know how to handle the Jew,
doesn't understand the Jew and, God knows, he
doesn't like him. So you find a government pro-
Arab on the one side and with a certain degree
of prejudice springing from misunderstanding,
confusion and bewilderment against the Jew on
the other.
In the third place (and now I hate to say it,
but I believe I have the testimony and evidence
which I wish I could give to you), I am profoundly
convinced that the Englishman has no confidence
in the success of Zionism. His attitude (let me
put it as frankly as I can) is the attitude of "the
man from Missouri." He has got to be shown.
And up to the present moment he isn't being
shown, or at least he won't tell you that he sees
anything that convinces him of the thing that you
really believe in your own heart is so true and so
sure—skepticism, skepticism, skepticism on the
question of nearly all the enthusiasms which I
myself brought to certain Englishmen from the
standpoint of the things that I had seen and which
had thrilled me to the very core.
Lastly, I am convinced that the Englishman's
prime motive in Palestine is the motive of the
empire. Ile is not over-interested in the Arab,
not over-interested in the Jew; he is tremendously
interested in the empire, and he recognizes the
supreme imperial importance of Palestine lying
half-way between England on the one hand and
India upon the other. And, don't fool yourselves,
she is never going to get out as long as the English
empire endures. The problem of Zionism, I am
convinced, has got to be worked out in terms of
the permanent imperial sovereignty in that
country.
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A Review of Ludwig Lewisohn's "Mid-Channel."
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Ben Avi's Pet Idea Finds a Competitor.
To Ben Avi it should even be a source of pride for
Jews to return to the use of the old Hebrew, or the
present Latin. lie asks:
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his heights in "The Island With
On April 17 Harper and Broth-
in," wherein he made the best at -
ers, publishers (49 East Thirty-
',roach to the Jewish problem;
third street, New York), provided
wherein he offered the best expl, •
the literary world with material
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nation for his virtual return to his
which ought to arouse even more
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people.
spirited discussion than was oc-
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"Mid..Channel"—His Best Work.
casioned by the publication last
year of Ludwig lA••isohn's "The
Now conies "Mid-Channel," and
Island Within." This time it is
it is safe to say that therein he
"Mid-Channel." from the pen of
not only definitely shows his met-
the same author but vastly su-
tle and his sincerity in his return
perior in quality, vastly more im-
to his own and natural fold, but
portant as ft study of Jewish life.
at the same time presents to the
as the spiritual autobiography of
world his very best work. "Mid-
one of our greatest literary geni-
Channel" is Lewisohn's second
uses, as the narration of a transi•
part of that American and Jewish
Lion from utter indifference to
chronicle which he began in "Up-
things Jewish to the extreme love
stream." From the point of view
for the People of the Book and its
of his contribution to Jewish
Of
Book.
study it is by fur his best work
tir
In "Upstream" L•wisohn re-
in that he emerges not only with
vealed to the world his first suffer•
a knowledge of his people's
ings that came as a result of the
characteristics and history, but
conflict within him, as well as in
with an understanding and devo-
his worldly experiences, over his
tion which is lacking in many who
Jltwishness. His associations until
have devoted their entire lives to
the beginning of the present dec-
similar studies.
ade were not Jewish. Although of
In "Mid-Channel" Mr. Lewi-
sohn discusses with us the divorce
Jewish parentage, he was brought
up in a Christian environment, re-
problem. He is frank and at the
ceiving his spiritual teachings in a
same time happy over his associa-
Christian church and imbibing
tion with Thelma. "Until I met
strongest influences from Ger-
Thelma I had wholly missed the
mans and from German culture.
experience of marriage and had
During and after the war things
therefore, in both speech and
began to happen. His Christian
writing, passed a number of judg-
wife, his pacifism, his liberalism—
ments which I now repudiate." He
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these led to conflicts, inner and
goes so far as to favor the re-intro-
outward, which cost him much
duction of the gett for the Jew in
spiritual agony; which subjected
America for the sake of the hap-
him to prejudices at the college
pier Jewish home, and whether he
where he was a teacher of English.
is agreed or disagreed with, it is
He poured out his heart to the
certain that he knows the sub-
world at large in "Upstream."
ject whereof he speaks, and is sin-
The Return to His People."
cere in its treatment.
Then began an awakening.
"The Great Study."
"Israel" was the result of his
kt(i
There is one chapter in Lewi-
travels through Palestine and
sohn's new volume which is in it-
Eastern Europe. The Jew in him
a
masterpiece.
It
is
"The
self
began to stir, and in order to know
Great Study," in which we are
himself and his people he literally
taken for a cruise through the
began with the Jewish "Aleph
finest gems in Talmudic literature.
Reis," he began with the A B C
Considering that it is only seven
and traveled through the most im-
years since IA•wisohn began his
portant Jewish centers to study
great—his Jewish—study, he has
the ways and modes of Jewish
achieved a literary and spiritual
living. Ile went to Poland, he vis-
triumph. By taking his readers
ited his Galician brethren, he di-
through the storehouse of Mish-
rected his pilgrimage to Palestine.
naic legends, he has contributed a
Ile returned with a literary and
valuable chapter to Jewish book-
figurative love for Israel. Ludwig
land.
le•isohn of "Upstream" fame be-
On previous occasions, in these
gan his homeward march, the re-
the editor has already
turn to his own people.
touched
upon the numerous prob-
In "Israel" Lewisohn in a sense
lems reviewed by Le•isohn in
appeared in a somewhat unnatural
"Mid-Channel." The editor has
garb. His return to his people
followed "Mid-Channel" in the
was rather sudden. Many refused
monthly installments in the Me-
to understand his virtual "conver-
rah Journal, where this book
sion." There was even that
was first published, and a re-read-
charge of his carrying a chip on
ing of Harper's volume only bears
his shoulder, of his having suffered
out the truth of his first judg-
from a common Jewish complex
ment that "Mid-Channel" is Lewi-
which suspected anti-Semitism in
sohn's best work and one of the
the slightest show of unfriend-
finest contributions of the year.
liness on the part of Gentiles. But
"Mid-Channel" is such a sincere
Isewisohn did not let up in his
work, it is so much deeper than
work which revealed a complete
"The
Island Within" as a study
about face in the activities of a
of Jewish life, that it ought to be
man hitherto known as a literary
assured in advance of an excellent
critic. In several works of fiction
sale, exceeding even Lewisohn's
he indirectly dealt autobiograpri-
previous masterpieces.
catty with the Jewish problem that
P. S.
became his problem. He reached
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books and Authors
A FRAUD!
THE CHOSEN PEOPLE. By Je-
rome and Jean Tharaud. Pub-
lished by Longmans, Green &
Co., 55 Fifth avenue, New
York ($2).
The Tharaud brothers have for
a number of years been posing as
students of the Jewish problem.
In a number of books they pre-
tended to be revealing truths, un-
known or hidden, about the mys-
terious Jews. In reality their
works are mere rehashes of certain
farts minus the explanations of
their backgrounds, plus the per-
sonal touches of the authors, who
fail to show the slightest under-
standing of our much misunder-
stood people.
In "The Chosen People" the two
Frenchmen pretend to be giving
us, in not more than 200 very
brief pages, "a short history of the
Jews in Europe," and not only do
they malign in the contents as well
as in the title the people they are
supposed to describe, but are
fraudulent in the very claim of
their work being "a history."
The authors open with a sup-
posed explanation of their posi-
tion, and in the preface they deny
that they are anti-Semites, RS is
frequently charged against them.
It appears as if "oif a ganef brennt
die hittel," the Yiddish proverb
meaning "upon a thief burns his
hat," implying the bothering of a
conscience, has much truth in it.
For, immediately following the au-
thors' arraignment of those Jews
who fear criticism, they launch an
atack on all Jews which they
would have us tolerate. And,
truly, it is about time that these
two Frenchmen were stopped from
capitalizing on the Jews as they
have until now.
In their first chapter they at-
tempt to explain the rise of the
ghetto, and they would have the
reader believe that (page 28) "it
was in order to put the Holy Torah
. . . beyond all profanation that
the Jews shut themselves up into
the ghetto." In other words, we
have built the walls around as
ourselves, just to keep to our-
selves, and in punishment of it the
nations later matte it "an obliga-
tory jail" (page 32) for the Jews
And this they would have us swal-
low as logic!
The book contains misrepresen-
tations after misrepresentations.
The authors launch an attack upon
the Talmud, revealing not even the
slightest understanding of the
work of the men who compiled it.
In speaking of the Torah they con-
tinually refer to sephorim-
"books"—as scribes who write the
Holy Scriptures. Throughout their
volume they make use of Hebrew
words, with very few exceptions
misspelling or misusing them. For
example, "haskalah" is written
"haskata."
The Tharauds pose as authori-
ties on everything. They speak of
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Gems From Jewish Literature
Selected by Rabbi Leon Fram.
"JEPIITHAIUS DAUGHTER"
"And it became a custom in Is-
rael that the daughters of Israel
went from year to year to lament
for the daughter of Jephthah, the
Gileadite. four days in the year."
—Judge XI.
"There in • lonely mountain-top,
A curse upon it lies,
upon it grow,
No blade of
No Rower% greet the eyes.
Rut cold, bare cliffs of granite stand.
Like sentinels of ,Inns.
Year after year. through wind and snow,
Around a craggy throne.
And on the topm.t. coldest peak
There is a spot of woe--
A little tomb. • 5 old ,tray tomb.
Raised centurie s ago.
For there within her era.. .he lies
Plucked in •n evil hour—
The martyred daughter of her race,
braers fairest flower!
There Jepthah • maid
! n eeeee
sieeps-
The •irtim that he vowed—
four days in the dreary rear,
The lonelinees i. loud.
,P;;.44.-Warl' • • •
And Gile•d•. mournine daughters
Up from the ‘•Iley throng—
The rnounlain glen. reverberate
With .orrow and with none!
wail
Oh. loud nod
The light. untimely spent,
dance upon the mountain-to•
A choral of lament.
And
And as they dance they seem to see
Another dancer, too,
And hear, amidst themeasure ri•e.
The voiee of her they ruer
—Y F.110A811-.- (Translated
by Alter Brody).
"O'ER THE
CITY'S
HOUSES "
Oer the city roof.
The nigh•a soft spell I. wrought:
Peering through the window
Leans my child, in thought.
Now he stand. on tiptoe.
Stares from aide to side.
And hi. cheeks turn ashen,
And his eye. grow wide.
In the wind. his ringlet.
Curl to blond. silk folds
•ine. elm.. know
Why my child beholds!
--REUBEN EISLAND
(Translated by Isaac Goldberg)